George@orwellian.org posted: [...snip...]
http://foxnews.com/election_night/111600/uncounted.sml [...snip...] # # Some counties had startlingly large numbers of ballots that # weren't counted. All three of these used punchcards: # # - In Miami-Dade County, 28,601 ballots were not counted in the # presidential race, out of about 654,044 cast. # # - In Palm Beach County, home of the controversial "butterfly # ballot," 29,702 votes weren't counted out of 462,888 total. # # - In Jacksonville and surrounding Duval County, 26,909 votes # went uncounted out of 291,545 cast. [...snip...]
At last someone mentioned the numbers! I make that about 4.4% uncounted in Dade (top of the normal range I guess), 6.4% in Palm Beach (bad) and 9.2% in Duval (pathetic). The voters of those counties have every right to complain. Whether or not that should effect the outcome of your nationwide election is, I suppose, up to your constitution. (Of which my own limited I-am-neither-a-lawyer-nor-an-American understanding agrees with the entity posting as "Jonathan"'s: jonathan@screaming.org wrote:
d) As with (c) above, the US popular vote is statistically a draw--but we have a mechanism to deal with this event: it's called the Electoral College. As defined in its duties by the Constitution, the delegates are to meet on Dec 18th IIRC, and there is no provision for them showing up late. In fact, IIRC, he who gets the majority of them present wins, and "them" need not be all there could be--just all of them there that day.
e) As with (c) and (d) above, if Florida can't get their Poop in a Pile by Dec. 18th, then they don't get to play. Tough shit. (And IMHO, it serves them right; they've had a demonstrably fucked process for at least two terms, and haven't fixed it. Maybe this will give the People of Florida the impetus to get with the ballgame the next time around.)